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Maryse Condé was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. She was also an academic, whose teaching career took her to West Africa and North America, as well as the Caribbean and Europe. As a writer, Condé is best known for her novel Ségou (1984–1985).
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culture · French Guadeloupean author (1934–2024) · writer · university teacher · children's writer · playwright · literary scholar · journalist · also Maryse Condé, Maryse Conde, Marise Condé, Mariz Kondé, Condé
Born 11 February 1934 · Died 2 April 2024 · Q464371
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To be part of so many worlds – part of the African world because of the African slaves, part of the European world because of the European education – is a kind of double entendre. You can use that in your own way and give sentences another meaning. I was so pleased when I was doing that work, because it was a game, a kind of perverse but joyful game.
Awarded Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (2019).
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“To be part of so many worlds – part of the African world because of the African slaves, part of the European world because of the European education – is a kind of double entendre. You can use that in your own way and give sentences another meaning. I was so pleased when I was doing that work, because it was a game, a kind of perverse but joyful game.”
The Washington Post: Maryse Condé, a grande dame of Caribbean literature, dies at 90
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The Guardian: ‘An extraordinary role model’: Maryse Condé remembered by Leïla Slimani
Yahoo: Maryse Condé, Guadeloupe-born author of stirring novels like Segu and Windward Heights – obituary
CNN: Maryse Conde, author of diasporic fiction and winner of ‘alternative’ Nobel Literature Prize, dies at 90
Oklahoma's News: Maryse Condé, prolific ‘grande dame’ of Caribbean literature, dies at age 90
Yahoo: Maryse Conde, Caribbean chronicler of colonialism, dies at 90
The Guardian: Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean 'grand storyteller' dies aged 90
Hartford Courant: Maryse Condé, prolific ‘Grande Dame’ of Caribbean literature, dead at age 90
Radio France Internationale: Maryse Conde: Daring storyteller who explored black identity
Died 2024-04-02.
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Was honoured as one of 12 Royal Society of Literature International Writers, alongside Anne Carson, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Cornelia Funke, Mary Gaitskill, Faïza Guène, Saidiya Hartman, Kim Hyesoon, Yōko Ogawa, Raja Sheh
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The Guardian: Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé – a village united by a vagabond
The Guardian: The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé review – a scurrilous picaresque
The Guardian: Maryse Condé: 'An English author can reach the heart of a Caribbean child'
Awarded Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (2019).
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The Guardian: Alternative Nobel literature prize goes to Maryse Condé
Awarded New Academy Prize in Literature (2018).
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Condé was awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature, established as a one-off alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature (for which she was often considered a favourite but which was not awarded that year, as a conse
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2014).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit (2011).
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Collège Maryse-Condé on the island of La Désirade was inaugurated in her honour
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Awarded grand prix du roman métis (2010).
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Awarded Afro-Caribbean Arts Trophies (2009).
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Awarded Commander of the National Order of Merit (2007).
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Awarded Prix Tropiques (2007).
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Awarded Hurston-Wright Legacy Award (2005).
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2004).
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Awarded Grand Prix Metropolis bleu (2003).
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Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2001).
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“Order, Disorder, Freedom, and the West Indian Writer”
Awarded Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde (1997).
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Condé became a professor of French and Francophone literature at Columbia University in New York City, where she was subsequently professor emerita
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Dieu nous l'a donné, published in 1972, first performed in Paris in 1973
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Her play The Hills of Massabielle was staged in New York at the Ubu Repertory Theater
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Awarded Anaïs Ségalas Prize (1988).
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1987).
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Was a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio writer-in-residence, and she was also awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
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Pension les Alizés, published in 1988, first staged in Guadeloupe and subsequently staged in New York as Tropical Breeze Hotel (1995)
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Condé was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the United States to teach "Literature and Culture of the Caribbean" at Occidental College, Los Angeles (September 1985–May 1986)
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And Condé divorced, having long been separated
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Studied at Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, doctorate in France (1976).
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In Puteaux, France, later staged in English in New York as The Hills of Massabielle at the Ubu Repertory Theater (1991)
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Returned to Paris and taught Francophone literature at Paris VII (Jussieu), X (Nanterre), and Ill (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
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“Three Female Writers in Modern Africa : Flora Nwapa, Ama Ata Aidoo and Grace Ogot”
(Condé already had one child from Haitian journalist Jean Dominique)
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Condé attended a rehearsal in Paris of Les Nègres/The Blacks by Jean Genet, where she met the Guinean actor Mamadou Condé
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Born 1934-02-11.
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